I jumped ship from FM and went to CD's decades ago. Not having to listen to advertisements or know-it-all announcers was heaven sent.
I am now a fervent streamer.
I use a Bluesound Node and an external Dac (Ayre Codex), and find the sound quality to be very acceptable. Using Tidal or Qobuz will allow you to access higher resolution formats, but even Spotify sounds pretty good (and in my opinion, has a greater catalog, as well as good recommendations).
I won't try to argue that it sounds as good as vinyl, but streaming and DAC's are evolving fast. I can see it overtaking vinyl in the near future.
If you doubt that statement, then recall how no one thought digital cameras could out perform film- yet, there are now digital cameras with 100mp sensors that blow away even large format film cameras-and with the ability to do post production editing that was unheard of 20 years ago.
Just sayin'...
Bob
I am now a fervent streamer.
I use a Bluesound Node and an external Dac (Ayre Codex), and find the sound quality to be very acceptable. Using Tidal or Qobuz will allow you to access higher resolution formats, but even Spotify sounds pretty good (and in my opinion, has a greater catalog, as well as good recommendations).
I won't try to argue that it sounds as good as vinyl, but streaming and DAC's are evolving fast. I can see it overtaking vinyl in the near future.
If you doubt that statement, then recall how no one thought digital cameras could out perform film- yet, there are now digital cameras with 100mp sensors that blow away even large format film cameras-and with the ability to do post production editing that was unheard of 20 years ago.
Just sayin'...
Bob